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Homosapien-Tattalous: The Human Tattletale

Defining Homosapien-Tattalous Since the beginning of civilization, human beings have felt the need to get each other in trouble. It seems to be the life-long ambition of some individuals to make others miserable in-order-to feel a little better about there own small lives. I am of course speaking of homosapien-tattalous (the tattletale). This species of human is unfortunately not rare and is commonly found on school play yards and in elementary school classrooms (though they ar… Continue

Posted on March 11th, 2008 at 7:41pm —

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Spelling Lists: An Antiquated Waste of Instructional Time.

Spelling Lists: An Antiquated Waste of Instructional Time. I must begin this conversation by saying of course DON’T PANIC. I do believe that spelling should be addressed in schools. I must also disclose that in my first year of teaching (admittedly a short time ago) I too thought the students must memorize spelling words each week. What I discovered that year and through subsequent research (including the article No More Friday Spelling Tests? by Kelly A. Loeffler) was that I was only te… Continue

Posted on February 19th, 2008 at 9:18pm — 2 Comments

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At 7:19pm on January 14th, 2008, Barb Gilman said…
Thanks! I hadn't played with Photo Booth much so I thought I'd better try. So do you see the resemblance between my 4 year old picture and my new one? :-)
 
 

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